As I run across books that look interesting, I throw them in my Amazon cart. Two in the cart at present:
Daniel Walker Howe's
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. The last "big" book covering this period, Sean Wilentz's
The Rise of American Democracy, was disappointing. However, this
review of Howe's book suggests that it will be far superior.
A series of extraordinary testimonials, such as
this one by Todd Zywicki at Volokh, led me to Harold J. Berman's
Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition.
On the other hand, another item in my cart is the latest
killer sheep movie.
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